The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-27
NEWS BRIEF,

-Lucca has been singing at Stock.
holm.
Wisconsin promises a large cram
berry crop this season.
Irving, the actor, is said to have
cleared over 500, 900 last season.
-Mierzwinski has been winning
triumphs in Southern Germany.
in seven years a Michigan farmer
has had seven horses killed by light
ming.
Cincinnati has a ten .months. old
child who is claimed to weigh 42t
pounds.
Fifty thousand prescriptions are
yearly compounded at the Boston Dis
pensary.
Pay Up Is the name Of a p~ost-ofice
in Georgia, and Missouri has one called
Pay Down.
"A company has been organized in
Chicago to run an underground railway
through that city.
-Stepniack, the celebrated Nihilist
author, intends to visit the United
States in September.
Three clergymen belong to a Ere
company Of Cambridge, New York,
and one OF them is its foreman.
The epidemic of typhoid fever
which has visited Mount Holly, is re-
ported to be decreasing in severity.
An army Of tramp dogs infests
New Brunswick, New Jersey, to the
great discomfort and danger of her cit
liens.
Several towns AMI cities in Massa-
chusetts are arguing the right of as
SCISSORS to tax the residences of Catholic
priests.
More deaths occurred from lock.
jaw on Long Island, it is stated, than
upon any other corresponding area OF
territory in this country.
"A bill has passed the lower branch
of the New Hampshire Legislature
providing for the awarding OF State
| premiums at agricultural fairs.
"A photographer, connected with
the United States Signal Corps, has
obtained a photograph of a sunrise
from the summit Of Pixies Peak.
The duplication of street names in
| Cincinnati has given rise to so much
annoyance that the authorities are
taking measures to provide a remedy.
Children frequently squint. If
slight, this is easily prevented by band
aging the eye that does not squint, and
this will compel the squirting eye
to look straight.
-Chatauqua is an Indian word,
meaning ''easy DEATH" but one of IA
exchanges explains that it was named
before the philosophers established the
| summer school there.
The next Congress, it is stated,
will contain more than a dozen mem
bers who are or were owners or writer's
on newspapers, including Hit, of llli-
nois, who is al old shorthand reporter.
- Burglars entered the house of the
Rev. DIR. Newman, in Washington, ID.
G., recently, and stole some of his silver
and a number Of the Photographic views
he collected in his voyage around the
world.
"A sandhilI crane belonging to an
ex-Mayor of TuscOla, Illinois, is SAID
to give about twenty-four hours notice
Of approaching storms by. shrill calls
that can be heard in all parts of the
town.
Wooden shoes, whose chief value is
that they are so cheap that nothing can
be obtained On them in the pawn
shops, though they are serviceable
enough for the purpose, are now given
to poor children IN London.
"A trial of an alleged conjurer,
who had agreed to furnish a deserted
wife with a ''coniuring stone" to
bring her husband back, revealed the
tact that the stone was the magnetic
oxide of IRON, the ordinary natural
magnet.
An immense photograph, said to
be one of the largest IN the world,
has been taken of the United States
Treasury building at Washington. 1t
measures seven feet by four, anG is to
be presented to ex-Secretary of the
Treasury Daniel L. Manning.
An ~ungrateful tramp who was
taken IN by a Chicago woman from a
drenehing rain storm, given his sup
per and then provided a comfortable
place to sleep the night, was counted
among the missing in the morning, and
so was the sofa on which he had
rested.
Nearly half a million immigrants,
to be exact ASS, 116, entered the United
States through the six principal ports
during the fiscal year ending June Both,
1887. Great Britain and Ireland fur
nlshed the largest number, Germany
coming second, and Sweden and Nor
way third.
George Gould denies the recently
circulated story that his father, Jay
Gould, had been swindled out of
81, 900, 900 in contTucts for railroad
ties. He says there was a loss Of
about $50, 900 in connection with these
contracts, but there was nothing
wrong about them.
An ex-soldIer, on Ho11n. mazsa-
chusetts, accidentally struck a COM
rade on the head in 1865. Believing
that he had killed him, he fled, and did
net return to Lowell until a few days
age, when he was immensely relieved
by being greeted on the street by the
very man he thought he had killed.
An Arkansas lad, 10 years of age,
who sought TO spite his mother for a
dreadful wrong'' she had done HIM,
climbed a tree and declared his inten-
ton of remaining there during the
night. After an hours vaintul at
tempt on the part Of the mother to
persuade the lad to descend, she called
ON the town marshal, who lowered the
refractory youngster TO terra trma
with a rope.
r.. G. Condor, of Friendship, Me-,
is now at Portland on board a novel
craft which he has built for cruising
along the coast and photographing
points of interest. \ Maine paper de-
seribes IL as a catamaran with two
long narrow hulls carrying a boat be-
tween them, which contains a rOomy
cabin. la this Mr.. Condor is TO 1t up
a dark room for his photography. He
bullt the boat himself. doing all except